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Ladybbird · 27-11-23, 02:15

Tragic Stories, Haunted Faces of Troubled Men and Women Whose Home was The Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum.

Patients Injected With Sulphur, Oil and Electric Shock Treatment in an Attempt to Cure Them.

Stigmatised, shunned and very often forgotten, these troubling old pictures show what life was like for inmates at the turn of the 20th century

BBC 27 NOV 2023

They range from all walks of life, from labourers to hairdressers, sailors to tea ladies.

They also run the full gamut of ages, from the wide-eyed innocence of childhood to the brow-beaten, world-weariness of the old-aged.

Indeed, they could be any one of us.

Yet they all share one common bond - the tragedy of how their lives turned out and the daunting and dismal address at which they would all end up.

And it's in the yellowing pages of records from Bridgend's Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum that their stories still resound, cataloguing the fate of numerous lost souls who ghosted, broken by life or betrayed by their own inner make-up, on the outskirts of society in South Wales more than a century ago.

Swansea's Eleanor Williams - diagnosed with acute mania - has to be physically restrained for her photograph

Housed at the city's Glamorgan Archives, based in Leckwith, these huge dusty tomes tell of hundreds of lives set adrift from sanity's moorings, beset by misfortune that would scar them irrevocably or bested by an illness that for years had been increasing its control over their thoughts and actions.

“There's machinery moving in my mind” - John Phillips of Gower, whose facial growth led him to believe he was cursed

And many of them are cases whose treatment would these days be considered as abhorrent and akin to something out of the Dark Ages.

Back then phrases such as 'madness' and 'lunacy ' were still widely used, while a small, but growing number of physicians and social reformers strived to popularise terms such as 'mental illness' - phrases which broke down the stigma which tainted its sufferers.

Back in the early 20th century such conditions as schizophrenia, dementia and depression - even epilepsy - would have seen you subjected to fear and suspicion by many, while treatment saw patients detained by the state and injected with such things as sulphur and oil by way of raising body temperature in an attempt to cure them.

Did losing a child to Scarlet fever and suffering three miscarriages give this woman a breakdown?

For example, take 11-year-old Albert Meredith, the butcher's son from Cardiff whose internment in March 1903 saw him described as "defective and "imbecilic."

"He is devoid of all sense and cannot understand anything said to him," stared his case file.

"He is constantly getting into mischief and cannot be left anyone unsupervised for one moment" - a temperament implicitly explained away by his mother being said to have had “a fright shortly before his birth."

You wonder if today he would be diagnosed with learning difficulties and possible ADHD.

At just 11 Albert Meredith's learning difficulties saw him labelled "defective" and "imbecilic"

Similarly, you'd like to think that 43-year-old sailor Henry Cornwall from Barry, rendered insensible by a head injury, would have ended up with a better fate than restrained, helpless and 'given to throwing his own faeces around'.

He later died whilst still in there.

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Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,749 Thanks: 27,665 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Glamorgan Lunatic Asylum- Tragic Haunted Faces of Abused Men & Women Tragic Stories, Haunted Faces of Troubled Men and Women Whose Home was The Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum. Patients Injected With Sulphur, Oil and Electric Shock Treatment in an Attempt to Cure Them. Stigmatised, shunned and very often forgotten, these troubling old pictures show what life was like for inmates at the turn of the 20th century BBC 27 NOV 2023 They range from all walks of life, from labourers to hairdressers, sailors to tea ladies. They also run the full gamut of ages, from the wide-eyed innocence of childhood to the brow-beaten, world-weariness of the old-aged. Indeed, they could be any one of us. *Yet they all share one common bond - the tragedy of how their lives turned out and the daunting and dismal address at which they would all end up.* And it's in the yellowing pages of records from Bridgend's Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum that their stories still resound, cataloguing the fate of numerous lost souls who ghosted, broken by life or betrayed by their own inner make-up, on the outskirts of society in South Wales more than a century ago. Swansea's Eleanor Williams - diagnosed with acute mania - has to be physically restrained for her photograph Housed at the city's Glamorgan Archives, based in Leckwith, these huge dusty tomes tell of hundreds of lives set adrift from sanity's moorings, beset by misfortune that would scar them irrevocably or bested by an illness that for years had been increasing its control over their thoughts and actions. “There's machinery moving in my mind” - John Phillips of Gower, whose facial growth led him to believe he was cursed And many of them are cases whose treatment would these days be considered as abhorrent and akin to something out of the Dark Ages. Back then phrases such as 'madness' and 'lunacy ' were still widely used, while a small, but growing number of physicians and social reformers strived to popularise terms such as 'mental illness' - phrases which broke down the stigma which tainted its sufferers. Back in the early 20th century such conditions as schizophrenia, dementia and depression - even epilepsy - would have seen you subjected to fear and suspicion by many, while treatment saw patients detained by the state and injected with such things as sulphur and oil by way of raising body temperature in an attempt to cure them. Did losing a child to Scarlet fever and suffering three miscarriages give this woman a breakdown? For example, take 11-year-old Albert Meredith, the butcher's son from Cardiff whose internment in March 1903 saw him described as "defective and "imbecilic." "He is devoid of all sense and cannot understand anything said to him," stared his case file. "He is constantly getting into mischief and cannot be left anyone unsupervised for one moment" - a temperament implicitly explained away by his mother being said to have had “a fright shortly before his birth." You wonder if today he would be diagnosed with learning difficulties and possible ADHD. At just 11 Albert Meredith's learning difficulties saw him labelled "defective" and "imbecilic" Similarly, you'd like to think that 43-year-old sailor Henry Cornwall from Barry, rendered insensible by a head injury, would have ended up with a better fate than restrained, helpless and 'given to throwing his own faeces around'. *He later died whilst still in there.*